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Selma then and now: Bloody Sunday 50 years later

SELMA, Alabama — On March 7, 1965, photos of Alabama police officers beating black marchers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge went old-school viral across the United States. That day became known as Bloody Sunday, and it transformed the country.

Those marchers were simply asking for the right to vote, and their memory was honored on Sunday by thousands of modern marchers who took to the same bridge in celebration of the Bloody Sunday marchers' sacrifice.

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